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CachyOS July 2025 Update Finally Lets Users Choose the Shell During Installation (9to5linux.com)

submitted 4 days ago by cm0002@programming.dev to c/linux@programming.dev

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[–] TwilightKiddy@programming.dev 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

They use their own repos, but they don't hold back the packages. The reason for having separate repos is recompiling packages for newer architectures. It gives a little performance boost for most of them. AUR works totally fine.

[–] kurcatovium@piefed.social 1 points 2 days ago

OK, thank you, this pretty much explains everything.